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210. Totanus chlorapygeus, Bona., Green-rump Tattler, Strat- 

 ford. 



211. T. macularius, Bona., Spotted Tattler, Peet-weet, Strat- 

 ford. 



212. T. Bartramius, Wilson, Bartram's Tattler, Stratford. 

 *213. Caladris arenaria, Illiger, Sanderling, Stratford. 



*214. Limosa fedoa, Vieill., Great Marbled Goodwit, Stratford. 

 215. L. Hudsonia, Swainson, Rose-breasted Goodwit, Stratford. 

 *216. L. Edwardsii? Richardson, White Goodwit, Stratford. 



217. Scolopax grisea, Gmelin, Red-breasted Snipe, Stratford. 



218. S. Wilsonii, Teraminck, Wilson's Snipe, Stratford. 



219. Rusticola minor, Nuttall, Woodcock, Stratford. 



Family Rallidai. 



*220. Rallus elegans, Audubon, Rail, Stratford. 

 221. R. crepitans, Gmelin, Clapper Rail, Stratford. 

 *222. R. Yirginianus, Linn., Yirginia Rail, Stratford. 

 *223. R. Carolinus, Linn., Carolina Rail, Stratford. 



*213. The sanderling is also rare here. I have obtained but one specimen. 



*214. The great marbled goodwit was here last August in large flocks, but very- 

 shy. I obtained one — length nineteen inches, alar thirty four, tarsus three and a 

 half, and bill four and a half inches. 



*216. The white goodwit (L. Edioardsii) I shot here fifteen years since, from a 

 flock of other plovers, flying southwest, at a place called Fresh Pond, in this town. 

 It is the only specimen I have ever seen or heard of south of Hudson's Bay. I 

 then supposed it to be a large white snipe, though a sportsman with me at the time 

 was sure it was a goodwit, the bill being turned upward and very long. Since I 

 have seen the description of Fedoa Canadensis, (L. Edwardsii of Richardson,) I 

 feel quite confident this was a specimen of that very rare bird. Not know- 

 ing its extreme rarity, and as my attention was then more particularly directed to 

 land birds, I did not preserve it. But I have a good recollection of it, and no sea- 

 son has since passed in which I have not very desirously looked for it. It was 

 larger than Wilson's, or the red-breasted snipe. It was mostly a pure white, except 

 some portions of it were rather a yellowish white, and " rostro sursurn recurvo" 



*220. A female specimen of R. elegans was taken alive in this town and con- 

 fined in a cage, where it soon deposited an egg, both of which I obtained imme- 

 diately. On opening the bird, I found many eggs of different sizes, sufficient to 

 establish the fact that this species breeds here, though before unknown even to 

 visit New England. She was chased into a hole in a bank near a salt marsh, and 

 thus secured. The egg is larger and darker at the greater end than those of the 

 clapper rail, which breeds abundantly here. 



*222. The Virginia rail also breeds here, as I sent an egg to Dr. Brewer, which 

 he decided to be of this species. 



*223. The Carolina rail was so abundant here last autumn in the marshes of the 

 Housatonic, that something like hundreds were killed in a few hours, and that too 

 for several days together. They were esteemed a great delicacy. 



